Eya Fechin

Eya Nicolaevna Fechin (June 14, 1914, Kazan, Russian Empire – September 20, 2002, Taos, USA) was the daughter of and thereby the long-serving model for a Russian, Soviet and American artist Nicolai Fechin; and a psychic, dancer and psychiatrist (art therapist), author of memoirs about Nicolai Fechin, books and articles about his work, and founder of a private museum in Taos dedicated to his work. Her father's biographer, Galina Tuluzakova, calls his portraits of her "unconditional masterpieces", stating: "Each of the numerous portraits of the daughter reflects both the immensity of paternal love and the brilliant skill of a great artist. In Tuluzakova's opinion, in Fechin's portraits of Eya "ideal and real, desirable and real, life and art happily united". According to the poet and artist Pavel Radimov, the last chairman of the Peredvizhniki Society and the first chairman of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, "Eya's head is shining in Fechin's numerous sketches and studies with all the joy of his paternal love".

Fechin created pictorial portraits, pencil drawings, and carved images of his daughter from her birth to her twentieth birthday. About forty of these portraits are known, most of them in museums and private collections in Russia and the United States. As of 2011, three sketches and one miniature were identified in Russian collections (one more is in question). The whereabouts of some of Nicolai Fechin's paintings of his daughter are unknown.